uncomb
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To comb out; to disentangle.
Example Sentences
- "While I eat the popcorn, Loretta uncombs the “set” on her hairpiece."
- "I decided to uncomb my hair and put on baggy pants and a dirty shirt and apply for food stamps."
- "The wind neither moves, nor spreads, nor even uncombs her hair in rapid flight."
- "Your hands warm as Summer feel for my hair to uncomb it and hide your lips within a kiss."
- "She was dishevelled in attire; her stocking was down at heel like a stage Hamlet's ; her beautiful thick flaxen hair had burst all restraint, and tumbled about face, and neck, and shoulders with utter recklessness— I notice that hair always seems to uncomb, and unconfine, and ruffle itself in emotional situations— great tears hung on as long as they could to her beautiful eyelashes, and then dropped, tired out, on to her slate;"
- "She began to uncomb her hair which fell in masses on her shoulders."
Etymology
From un- + comb.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un